Washington. While he was on foreign soil he was subject to the greatest dangers and hazards, but he proved well qualified for all exigencies.

When he resigned from the Government service September 15, 1920, he had completed about two and a half years of service. For about half of this time he had been in the Naval Intelligence Bureau and the remainder as a special agent of the Department of Justice.

Soon after resigning he resumed his professional practice in Miami. Mr. Bobst is a member of the American Legion. At Miami, October 14, 1911, he married Julia B. Monroe, daughter of Doctor and Mrs. A. Leight Monroe. They have three children: Monroe Stanley, Martha Louisa and James Charles.

Mr. Sammons was born in Orange County, New York, in 1880, son of Samuel L. and Sarah L. (Decker) Sammons. He was reared on a farm, but as a youth began learning the carpenter's trade. His work as a journeyman carpenter was done in many cities of the country. and this title and experience gave him the broad and thorough technical knowledge of the building business that has proved exceedingly useful to him since becoming a contractor and builder. For several months after reaching Miami Beach he worked at his trade for day's wages. Gradually he turned his work and business affairs to permit him to handle contracts, and these contracts have been increasing in importance and value so that he has been an important factor in the great building program of Miami Beach. He has erected a number of its most attractive structures, including residences, apartments and business houses. The very gratifying total of his business as a contractor for 1921 has been greatly exceeded during 1922.

In the spring of 1922 Mr. Sammons erected an office building of concrete block and stucco on Collins Avenue, opposite the Miami Beach City Hall. This is to accommodate his rapidly expanding business. He is one of the active spirits in the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce and in all movements for the advancement of the city.

Mr. Sammons married Miss Amelia A. Kirst, of Connecticut.

FRANK S. DAVIS. In the development of such a city as Miami there is no more essential constructive service than that of building contractor. That has been Mr. Davis' business since locating in Miami, but he has been more than a practical business man, and in fact has been a leader and worker in every civic enterprise, excepting the city in general, and particularly in his own section, known as Highland Park.

Mr. Davis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1870, and was reared and educated in that city. After leaving the public schools he learned the carpenter's trade. Then as a journeyman he traveled, working as a carpenter

in various cities all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He was in business for several years in Philadelphia, and in 1909 he came to the then small town of Miami and located on what is now Northwest Seventh Avenue, in the present Highland Park district. This was then considered far out from the city's main activities. What is now Highland Park was laid out as the Golf Links Addition by the late A. J. Bendle. Mr. Davis purchased a ten acre plot here, part of what was known as the Savage place. In the community of Highland Park has been built one of the best public schools of the city, first class stores and other enterprises have been established, streets and sidewalks made and all modern improvements installed. Mr. Davis' private home has been one of the substantial contributions to the growth of this section. It is a handsome two-story structure in the heart of Highland Park, at the corner of Northwest Eleventh Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue. This home is constructed of Nassau stone.

As a contractor and builder Mr. Davis has erected a large number of residences and business structures all over Miami. He served as city building inspector under the administration of Mayor John W. Watson, and was also contractor and building inspector for the Florida East Coast Railway in the building of the company's passenger depot and the freight depot. The freight depot was completed in 1921.

His unselfish activities for the uplift and betterment of Highland Park have been repeatedly recognized by his neighbors and friends. In March, 1922, he was made president of the newly organized Highland Park Civic Club, and prior to that he had been made president of two community clubs launched for civic betterment. Mr. Davis is an Odd Fellow and was prominent in the order in his native city of Philadelphia, serving as district deputy grand master and representative on the Board of the Orphanage Home in that city.

Mr. Davis married Miss Anna E. Rhoads, of Philadelphia. Their six living children are: Neely Davis; Orville Davis, a student in the University of Florida; Norma Davis, attending the Florida Woman's College at Tallahassee; Marian, who graduated in 1922 from the Miami High School; Vernice; and Omar.

BEVERLY PEACOCK is president of the PeacockRice Company, Incorporated, lumbermen and dealers in builders supplies at Coconut Grove. Mr. Peacock has been an active business man in Dade County for a number of years, and his name serves to recall one of the prominent pioneer families in South Florida.

His uncle the late Charles Peacock, was a native of England and came to America in the '70s. He settled in Dade County, at old Fort Dallas, now part of the City of Miami, and was one of the pioneers in the early development of this section.

J. T. Peacock, father of Beverly Peacock, was also a native of England, born in Lincolnshire. He learned the mercantile business in one of the great mercantile establishments of London, and after coming to America with his brother he engaged in business for some years at Key West. For a time he was also located at New River, now the town of Fort Lauderdale, where he had charge of the United States Lighthouse

service. In 1882 he removed to Coconut Grove in Dade County, and thereafter confined his interests to ship building and truck growing. Beverly Peacock was born in 1882, while his father was living at Key West in Monroe County, and was just six months of age when his parents settled at Coconut Grove. After completing a common school education he took up a business career, and for several years was in Miami in partnership with Richard H. Rice, under the firm name of Peacock & Rice, fruit packers. From that business they began handling lumber and builders supplies, and in 1921 the PeacockRice Company established its plant at Coconut Grove, where in a remarkable short time the firm has developed a patronage for handling nearly all the important contracts involving building materials in this section. They handle everything from lumber to cement and builders hardware, and have supplied the material for a large number of residences and other structures not only in Coconut Grove but in surrounding localities such as Coral Gables. Their lumber yard and offices are located at the corner of Douglas and Bird Roads in Coconut Grove on the Florida East Coast Railroad.

Mr. Peacock in addition to being an active business man has a record of public service, having for four years been a member of the Dade County Board of Commissioners. He married Margarita Valley, of Monroe County, of a family of Spanish ancestry. Their four children are: Gifford LeRoy, James Wesley, Beverly Alton and Ancelmo.

W. M. BENNETT. One of the best known citizens of Dade County, representative of the agricultural and live stock interests of the county, is W. M. Bennett, widely known as a dairy man and in the pure bred cattle industry. His noted stock farm is on Arch Creek, in the northern section of the county.

Mr. Bennett has been a man of hard working purpose since early boyhood. He was born in Volusia County, Florida, in 1880, son of Asa and Louisa (Blackwelder) Bennett, his father a native of Georgia and his mother of Florida. His parents are still living. Asa Bennett came from Georgia to Florida at the age of eighteen and settled in Volusia County.

W. M. Bennett grew up on a farm, attended a country school from three to five months each year, and when he was only seven years old he began assisting his father in a cypress swamp in sawing shingle blocks. He helped in this arduous work every season until he was fifteen years of age. After that he handled the regular duties of a farm until he was about twenty, when he started for himself in the building trade and located at Ormond, where he became a charter member in the local carpenters' union. served as city marshal of Ormond for nearly five years, and after that became a contractor and builder in Southeast Florida, doing work in this line at Fort Lauderdale, Arch Creek, Lemon City and other places.

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Mr. Bennett has been a permanent resident of Dade County since 1909. For several years he did general farming, and since then has specialized in the live stock and dairy business. He has always been fond of live stock, and quite naturally he developed his interest into that of a breeder of pure bred stock. He owns and operates what is known as the Ringleader Stock Farm, comprising 220 acres nine miles

north of Miami, at Arch Creek. He has additional pasturage further north. His farm is stocked with Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey cows, numbering altogether about 130 head. His herd of seventy registered Holstein cows is one of the finest in the state. Each of his herds, Jersey, Holstein and Guernsey is headed by a bull that is the best in its class. His Holstein bulls are of the famous Ragapple strain, and Mr. Bennett has owned several of the finest individuals of that class. While he is a breeder and dealer in pure bred stock, he has not neglected the practical production end of his dairy. In the early part of 1922 his dairy herds were producing about 125 gallons of milk each day, and arrangements were then being made to increase the production to 250 gallons. It is an important industry, and contributes in no small degree to the pure milk supply of Dade County. It is also a conspicuous instance of the remarkable progress made in better live stock in this section of Southern Florida, where a few years ago high grade cattle were practically unknown.

Mr. Bennett has always been interested in public affairs, and he served nine years as deputy sheriff of Dade County. His fellow citizens, particularly in the northern section of the county, have learned to apperciate his fidelity to their best interests and his businesslike performance of public duty. In 1921 Mr. Bennett became a candidate for the democratic nomination for county commissioner to represent district No. 2, the northern district of Dade County, and was elected June 6, 1922, by a large majority. His many friends are urging him to make the race for sheriff in 1924. Mr. Bennett is a thirtysecond degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, being a member of Mahi Temple of the Shrine at Miami. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.

He married Miss Dora Windham. Their three children are Thelma Minnie, Leila Louise and Joyce Jeannette.

JUDGE JULIAN L. HAZARD, judge of the County Court and county judge of Hillsborough County, was born on June 11, 1896, at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, and he is a son of Phillip Francis and May E. (Colson) Hazard, natives of Illinois and Texas, respectively. He is the second son and the second child in a family of five, three sons and two daughters. Phillip Francis Hazard died at the age of fifty-two years, but his widow survives and makes her home in Tampa. Judge Hazard was eleven years of age at the time of his father's death.

Brought to Tampa when only nine years of age by his parents, Judge Hazard is decidedly a product of the city, which is proud of him and what he has already accomplished, and glad to recognize a brilliant future stretching out before him.

Notwithstanding the almost insurmountable obstacles placed between him and an education by his father's untimely death, Judge Hazard at his then tender age realized the necessity and advantages of training and education, and undaunted by adversity determined to overcome those obstacles and achieve his heart's ambition. Toward that end he secured employment as a clerk in a store and a dispenser of soft drinks and at various other tasks to not only enable him to attend school, but also to aid in the support of his widowed mother and younger brother and

sisters. He attended the Hillsborough County and Tampa grammar schools and the Hillsborough High School, and Stetson University at DeLand, Florida, from which university's College of Law he was graduated June 5, 1918, receiving his degree of LL. B.

On June 20, 1918, he enlisted in the United States navy as a yeoman, being later promoted to rank of chief yeoman, and detailed to service in the Office of Naval Intelligence, Sixth Section, Seventh Naval District, where he served under that rating until he received his honorable discharge following the signing of the armistice.

Having been admitted to practice in both the State and Federal courts, after his discharge from the United States navy, Judge Hazard returned to Tampa and opened his offices for the general practice of law on January 1, 1919.

Nominated by an overwhelming vote in the June primaries of 1920 as the democratic candidate for county judge and judge of the County Court of Hillsborough County, at the fall election of the same year he was the successful candidate for those offices, and assumed his duties as judge on January 4, 1921. Although the youngest member of the bench in the state, he is one of the fairest and ablest, and his work is watched with admiration and respect by both bench and bar. Since reaching his majority Judge Hazard has taken an aggressive part in public affairs, and is recognized as one of the leaders of his party in this section.

On August 12, 1920, Judge Hazard married Aristene Jane Luther, of DeLand, Florida. An infant daughter, Aristene Jane, was born to Judge and Mrs. Hazard on January 8, 1922.

The Baptist Church has in Judge Hazard one of its most consistent and zealous members and an efficient worker. Fraternally he belongs to the American Legion, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the World, Caribou, and Phi Beta Psi fraternity. He is a member of the Tampa Board of Trade and the Civitan Club.

Judge Hazard is progressive in his ideas, and belongs to that class of young men who are going to have a very important influence in determining the trend of public affairs in the next decade or two. Because of his fairness, ability and public spirit he has established himself firmly in the hearts of his fellow-citizens and the people of his home city and county.

GUY W. LIVINGSTON was for a number of years in railroad work as a freight tariff clerk; but for the past seven years has devoted his experience and abilities to the Miami Chamber of Commerce, of which he is managing secretary.

Under him the Chamber has become an organization of the widest usefulness and public benefit. It represents a real service to every individual and firm in the membership and to the city at large in providing a medium of negotiation between Miami business and the railroads and other corporations. Through the Chamber of Commerce large sums of money have been spent in advertising the city and promoting its growth and expansion. For efficiency in operation the work of the Chamber of Commerce is divided into the following sections: Civic, Waterways, Legislation, Traffic, Industrial, Mercantile, Real Estate, Agricultural, Publicity, Hotels, Conventions, Everglades, City Planning and Beautifying.

Mr. Livingston, the managing secretary, is a native of Battle Creek, Michigan, where he was

reared and educated. As a youth he entered railroad service, becoming telegraph operator at Battle Creek. Later he was ticket seller and station agent, and on leaving Battle Creek he was sent to Chicago, where he became a compiler of freight tariffs with the Western Trunk Line Committee. With a mind especially adapted, he made his experience an opportunity for acquiring an expert knowledge of the complications and adjustments of freight tariff, particularly freight rates on shipments for export to foreign countries. He was engaged for several years in this work, and his duties required extensive travel throughout the United States. Mr. Livingston, came to Florida in 1915, and for a short time was in the freight tariff department of the Florida East Coast Railroad. Soon afterward he removed to Miami and took charge of the freight bureau of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, and since March, 1916, has been managing secretary of the chamber.

BEN C. WILLARD. The distinction of being the youngest member ever elected to the Legislature from Dade County belongs to Ben C. Willard, a lawyer of Miami and an ex-service man with an overseas record. He is a native of Florida, and has been a member of the bar of the state for the past eight years.

He was born at City Point in Brevard County, August 6, 1891, a son of C. A. and Octavia L. (Johnson) Willard, also natives of Florida and residents of Miami. Ben C. Willard was educated in the public schools of Dade County, and in 1906 entered the John B. Stetson University at Le Land, where he took both the academic and law courses. He received his law degree with the class of 1914, and was admitted to the bar in June of the same year at Tallahassee. He began practice with L. R. Railey, later was with M. D. Price, and following that was a member of the law firm of Carson, Pine & Willard, which with the withdrawal of Mr. Pine became Carson & Willard and so continued until April, 19, when F. L. Knight became member. As Carson, Willard & Knight this firm remained until July, 1920, when it was dissolved, and Mr. Willard is now practicing as senior member of the firm Willard & Knight.

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During this period he was with the colors, enlisting as a private in the army on April 26, 1918. He was assigned to Company D of the Three Hundred and Sixth Ammunition Train. For twelve months he was overseas, and was in the Meuse sector one month and was in the Argonne when the armistice was signed. Mr. Willard was discharged in July, 1919, and at once resumed his professional practice on his return to Miami. The same spirit of quiet and unassuming loyalty and courage which characterized him as a soldier he carries out in all the relations of life. His qualities of being just himself, without pretense of cleverness or of being something other than his real self, have gained for him a high place in the regard of representative and successful men of his city and state.

Mr. Willard was chosen to represent Dade County in the House of Representatives in the general election of 1920. He won the democratic nomination for the office by a majority of seven hundred votes over one of the ablest and most politically experienced citizens of Miami. In the following session of the Legislature he rendered a good account of himself, becoming one of the influential figures in the Legislature of 1921.